The Height of the Eiffel Tower

This one-woman show from Neighbours star Morgana O'Reilly was originally conceived in order to fund her travels abroad. Without the burden of sets, cast members or a director, she found herself with the play's full earnings at her disposal, and now most frequently performs it in households as a "thank you" to hospitable international hosts. A suitably cosy atmosphere is created in the Assembly Hall this afternoon as the daytime TV star engages us in inane chit-chat and hands out homemade biscuits. We should try to picture ourselves on top of a shag carpet with flying ducks on the wall behind her, she advises.

After some endearing preamble, it's disorientating watching O'Reilly ease herself into the multiple characters that inhabit The Height of the Eiffel Tower. Centred around a mother whose visit from an old university friend reminds her of the life she gave up for an unplanned family, the piece is populated by an array of recognisable figures. A pregnant 16 year-old bickers with her sexually precocious younger brother, while a naive older child sends reports of her bohemian life in Europe back to New Zealand. The matriarch holding everything together, meanwhile, giggles psychotically, never once acknowledging the void in her life until she experiences an overdue epiphany.

Fully realised as these creations are, it's unfortunate that they're given so little to do. With a stronger narrative and more emotional depth, this would easily transcend its status as a low-key hit.